Sentences with phrase «heavy drinkers reported»

Not exact matches

In a prior report, the authors showed that light and heavy drinkers showed similar levels of impairment on both tasks during the initial testing.

Heavy social drinkers who report greater stimulation and reward from alcohol are more likely to develop alcohol use disorder over time, report researchers from the University of Chicago, May 15 in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

As part of a long - term study, King and her team carefully screened and studied heavy social drinkers who reported a pattern of binge drinking behavior as young adults — at least four (for women) or five (for men) drinks per occasion, between one and five times per week.

The initial assessment when the participants were in their 20s revealed that the heavy drinkers showed a strongly positive preference to alcohol, reporting greater stimulating effects, «liking», and «wanting more», with lower sedative and cortisol effects.

«In other words, you can take a 150 - pound male light drinker and a 150 - pound male heavy drinker and give them each the exact same dose of alcohol, but their brains respond very differently to this substance, hence the divergent experiences and mood reports after consumption.

In fact, a 2010 study by Rabiner and his colleagues found that freshmen who reported having attention problems their first semester were more likely to take up stimulant misuse by the end of their sophomore year, even if they were not heavy drinkers and users of marijuana or other drugs.

According to a round - up of studies published in Consumer Reports, moderate amounts of red wine may confer some benefits, but any pluses rapidly change to risks for heavy drinkers.

Another thing that confounds the reports on whether alcohol contributes to weight gain is the fact that the game changes in heavy drinkers.

«Unfortunately, while looking for positive outcomes, heavier drinkers are also much more likely to report those aggressive, tearful and restless outcomes as well,» he noted.

Heavier drinkers also reported negative emotions more frequently.

The rates for men were 398 per 100,000 for those who never drank, 318 for low drinkers, 255 for moderate drinkers, 278 for high drinkers and 334 for heavy drinkers, the researchers reported.

Among battered women, 40 percent to 60 percent report that their husbands are heavy drinkers, and the CDC suggests that 35 percent of domestic violence is at the hands of a person under the influence of alcohol.

Those who reported having more than three drinks a week were considered at least moderate drinkers, while women who had more than seven drinks a week, and men who had more than 14 drinks a week, were considered heavy drinkers.

Discordant heavy drinking couples (i.e., one partner drinks heavily or to intoxication and the other does not) reported lower marital quality than concordant heavy drinking couples (i.e., both are heavy drinkers or both are not heavy drinkers), and there were no gender differences in the effects.